HOBOKEN -- A 14-year-old boy was caught on a
balcony after pilfering some liquor from a Hoboken apartment's balcony Monday
evening, police reports said.

Police were called to a Madison Street
home at 10:15 p.m. where they met a 32-year-old man with a teenager who the resident had
discovered holding two bottles of liquor, reports
said.

The man said he was home with his wife
and baby when he heard thumping noises coming from his balcony,
reports said. He went outside and came face to face with the juvenile
holding a bottle of rum in one hand and a bottle of orange liquor in the other, reports said.

The bottles had been removed from the
balcony of the apartment one floor above the resident who found the boy, reports said.

The
mother and stepfather of the child came to the police station to pick up the boy and charges were waived
on condition that the boy write an apology letter to the victim, reports
said.